A GREAT interview! Thanks Mike.

The truly amazing thing (to me) is that Jimmy has been giving the SAME interview for forty years now! He hasn't mellowed one iota. I saw him play several times thirty odd years ago, and it's no myth that he totally annoyed all his peers....big time!

At a big Festival in Columbus I watched as Jimmy and Red Allen (the OTHER strangest man in Bluegrass) competed with each other to see who could get the most fake encores on stage. Both of their bands looked humiliated (but VERRRY used to the shenanigans) as Jimmie and Red pulled out every stop they knew or could invent on the spot.

Jimmy was the master of stream of consciousness rambling and eventually I watched Charlie Waller go up to the MC and say "get him the fuck off" (or words to that extent) or we're (The Country Gentlemen) goin' home"!

Later that night Jimmy held court with about two dozen of us at a campfire, and didn't stop talking for two solid hours. Pure paranoia and weirdness from a GREAT singer and player.

P.S. His guitar was the loudest I've ever heard. That, combined with his VERY high action (warped neck AND top) and hard-playin' made it sound like a Les Paul on 11!

Cheers

Rick